US7459051B2 - Method and apparatus for automated application of lacquered films to body parts, and automation-compatible lacquered film composite - Google Patents

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US7459051B2
US7459051B2 US10/520,164 US52016405A US7459051B2 US 7459051 B2 US7459051 B2 US 7459051B2 US 52016405 A US52016405 A US 52016405A US 7459051 B2 US7459051 B2 US 7459051B2
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C63/00—Lining or sheathing, i.e. applying preformed layers or sheathings of plastics; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C63/02—Lining or sheathing, i.e. applying preformed layers or sheathings of plastics; Apparatus therefor using sheet or web-like material
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C63/00—Lining or sheathing, i.e. applying preformed layers or sheathings of plastics; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C63/02—Lining or sheathing, i.e. applying preformed layers or sheathings of plastics; Apparatus therefor using sheet or web-like material
    • B29C2063/027—Lining or sheathing, i.e. applying preformed layers or sheathings of plastics; Apparatus therefor using sheet or web-like material applied by a squeegee
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29C—SHAPING OR JOINING OF PLASTICS; SHAPING OF MATERIAL IN A PLASTIC STATE, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; AFTER-TREATMENT OF THE SHAPED PRODUCTS, e.g. REPAIRING
    • B29C63/00—Lining or sheathing, i.e. applying preformed layers or sheathings of plastics; Apparatus therefor
    • B29C63/0047—Preventing air-inclusions
    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B29—WORKING OF PLASTICS; WORKING OF SUBSTANCES IN A PLASTIC STATE IN GENERAL
    • B29L—INDEXING SCHEME ASSOCIATED WITH SUBCLASS B29C, RELATING TO PARTICULAR ARTICLES
    • B29L2031/00—Other particular articles
    • B29L2031/30—Vehicles, e.g. ships or aircraft, or body parts thereof
    • B29L2031/3055—Cars
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
    • Y10—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC
    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/11—Methods of delaminating, per se; i.e., separating at bonding face
    • Y10T156/1105—Delaminating process responsive to feed or shape at delamination
    • Y—GENERAL TAGGING OF NEW TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENTS; GENERAL TAGGING OF CROSS-SECTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES SPANNING OVER SEVERAL SECTIONS OF THE IPC; TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER USPC CROSS-REFERENCE ART COLLECTIONS [XRACs] AND DIGESTS
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    • Y10T—TECHNICAL SUBJECTS COVERED BY FORMER US CLASSIFICATION
    • Y10T156/00—Adhesive bonding and miscellaneous chemical manufacture
    • Y10T156/19—Delaminating means
    • Y10T156/1978—Delaminating bending means
    • Y10T156/1983—Poking delaminating means

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  • paint films can be positioned with only little accuracy, leading to frequent reworking. In this case, it should be remembered that there is no exact reference mark on the bodywork for alignment of the film blank by eye. If the alignment is not correct, the paint film may either be seated at a slight angle, so that the edges, whose dimensions are short, run poorly, or the film blank is seated too high or too low.
  • a different height position of the paint films may in some circumstances be highly disturbing.
  • FIGS. 11 and 12 show a greatly enlarged section illustration ( FIG. 11 ) and a view ( FIG. 12 ) on a smaller scale of another embodiment of long-nose pliers, which have a jaw lower part which can be moved parallel, and can be moved backward and forward as an entity by the width of the film composite,
  • FIG. 13 shows a partial view of a further exemplary embodiment of an application tool, illustrating the protective film pulling-off apparatus, with the gripping tool which is driven such that it can rotate in this case being in the form of a suction strip which has a D-shaped cross section and at the same time acts as a coil core,
  • the outer protective strip 8 is provided with a reasonably strongly adhesive layer, so that it can be pulled off the paint film 6 without a large amount of force and, in particular, without leaving any residue.
  • the lower protective strip 9 is provided with an antistick coating, so that it can likewise be pulled off the very strongly adhesive layer of the paint film 6 , without being torn into or being delaminated. It is desirable for the lower protective strip 9 to be automatically detached from the adhesive face of the paint film blank 6 when it is bent through a sharp angle, that is to say when it is bent with a small bending radius. In any case, the lower protective strip 9 should be more easily detachable from the adhesive face of the paint film or of the supporting film than the outer protective strip 8 from the outer face of the paint film.
  • FIG. 17 a The further exemplary embodiment of a film composite 16 which is illustrated in FIG. 17 a largely corresponds, apart from the projections 10 ′ and 11 ′, which have two layers, that is to say they have no protective film between them, to the film composite which is shown in FIG. 16 b.
  • the film composite 16 has three layers only in the area of the paint film blank 6 itself.
  • the pulling-off lug 12 ′ which is fitted at the start end has only a single layer.
  • This film composite 16 is particularly cost-effective, owing to the absence of the interposed supporting films, but cannot be stacked flat and in a planar form in relatively large numbers into the area of the projections 10 ′ and 11 ′.
  • the suction strip which is used as a coil core, when it is in the state in which it is ready to pick up, must, of course, also be able to be deliberately moved to a rotation position such that the flat picking-up surface of the suction strip, which has a D-shaped cross section, is parallel to the picking-up plane of the application tool, or is parallel to the pulling-off lug of the film composite which has been picked up.
  • a vacuum just has to be applied to the interior of the suction strips, which are fitted to the pulling-off lug, in order to grip the pulling-off lug 12 at the start-side projection of the film composite which is to be picked up or has already been picked up in the application tool.

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DE10230034A DE10230034B4 (de) 2002-07-04 2002-07-04 Verfahren und Vorrichtung zum automatisierten Applizieren von Lackfolie auf Karosserieteile sowie automationsgerecht gestalteter Lackfolienverbund
PCT/EP2003/005154 WO2004005012A1 (fr) 2002-07-04 2003-05-16 Procede et dispositif destines a l'application automatique d'un film de peinture sur les pieces de carrosserie et composite film de peinture compatible avec l'automatisation

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